2 year old Aveion Lewis reported kidnapped; Brandon Lockett killed him

[Jessiesgirl1108]

State Police have issued an Amber Alert for 2-year-old Aveion M. Lewis.

They say he was last seen wearing a yellow Sponge Bob Squarepants Footie Pajamas.

Investigators say his stepfather was knocked unconscious after he opened the back door of the family’s apartment.

State Police say a note requesting money was left behind.

State Police also say the three suspects had been hanging around the back of the apartment, and the stepfather had asked them to leave.

If you have any information, call Roanoke Police Department at (540) 853-2212 or Virginia State Police at 1-800-822-4453 (1-800-VACHILD).
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Roanoke Police are searching for a missing child.

2-year-old Aveion Lewis went missing Thursday night from the Jamestown Place apartments in the 2100 block of King Charles Avenue.

Officers were called to the apartment at 6:41 p.m.

Aveion’s mother told police that three men came into her home and knocked another man inside unconscious.

When that man woke up, he noticed Aveion was missing, and found a 4-year-old girl tied up.

Roanoke Police say the suspects may have left in a large white SUV.

The Police Department is currently working on activating an Amber Alert.

http://www2.wsls.com/sls/news/local/...g_child/74825/

[penelopejo]

I am very cynical, apparently, cause the first thing that popped into my head was that step-father killed the baby.

and that he had been abusing them and decided that tying up the girl would make it more believable.

And she waited till he woke up to call the cops?

If I'm wrong and he was kidnapped, I'll say I was wrong, but I find it mighty odd they'd only steal the baby and not anything else.

[Misskittychaos]

I am very cynical, apparently, cause the first thing that popped into my head was that step-father killed the baby.

and that he had been abusing them and decided that tying up the girl would make it more believable.

And she waited till he woke up to call the cops?

If I'm wrong and he was kidnapped, I'll say I was wrong, but I find it mighty odd they'd only steal the baby and not anything else.

My mind was heading the same way. Unless the Dad in involved? Just tossing out ideas and idle thoughts...

[Pene784]

ROANOKE, Va. — Police are looking for a Virginia toddler they say was taken from his home by three men.

An Amber Alert has been issued this morning for 2-year-old Aveion Malik Lewis.

Police say the men knocked the toddler's stepfather unconscious and took the child late Thursday afternoon from his home in Roanoke. They left a note asking for money.

The men may be traveling in a white 1990s Chevrolet Blazer.

The missing boy is described as African-American with close-cut black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing yellow SpongeBob Squarepants footie pajamas.

Police say the three suspects are African-American men who appear to be in their 20s.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...:b29805236:z10

Sounds very suspicious. Especially since the baby was taken from the step dad.

[buggysmommy]

Here we go again!

How is it that this world is riddled from end to the other with so many complete FUCKTARDS?!

Here's hopin you are okay little baby...

[MadeaBecBec]

Aveion Malik Lewis

This photo is the only one I have found, so far, Aveion doesn't seem two years old, to my eyes, but this may be the best one the family has, frustrating, because children change so much fast!


Be found , Little Aveion!

The stepfather says that when he woke up little Aveion was gone and his 4-year-old daughter was bound and restrained. He also found a note asking for money....

Police say the suspects are a 6-foot-2 black male in his late 20s with a stocky build and beard; a 5-foot-11 black male in his late 20s with dreadlocks and a muscular upper body; and a 5-foot-11 black male, 23 to 24 years old, with no facial hair.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01...y6100254.shtml
I also have to wonder, why just take the one child???

[donegaveup]

My ass.

[Pene784]

Ok, so the kidnappers only took the 2 year old boy and left the girl? This is going to end badly, I bet step-dad killed this baby and offered up this lame excuse

[koochie]

does anyone believe this story at all?...

[Fayebella]

look at the poor baby's lip in his picture. it's bruised...

[Aslan]

One of the guys who grabbed him could be his dad.
I worked in Roanoke for a couple of years, it's not a big area.
Interesting to find out more about this family

[Pazuzu]

The part that sounds the MOST made up to me is tying up the 4 year old.....that doesnt make sense for any reason.

[Valasca]

does anyone believe this story at all?...

Not even remotely.

[Silvahalo]

How was a description given of the SUV IF the father was knocked out unconscious? mother wasn't around, right? I wonder what the 4 yo has to say.

Reading this just brought tears to my eyes. I don't know, something about Aevion's picture. He seem's younger in that picture than 2 yo, but then he may have just turned two and I read from the link that he was a preemie with health problems, so probably small. So vulnerable this little one is, please be found wee one.

1:28 p.m.
From Meagan Farley, in the field
WSLS Anchor
mfarley@wsls.com
I just spoke with the brother of Aveion’s mother. He tells me the ransom note was written on a piece of paper from inside the home, and that paper was a medical bill from Carilion.
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12:52 p.m.
From Meagan Farley, in the field
WSLS Anchor
mfarley@wsls.com
I just spoke with the mother and step-father of Aveion Lewis.
They tell me the note demands $10,000, and Aveion has a health problem because he was born premature.

[Aslan]

Again folks, what's the deal between mom and Aveion's dad?
Tying up a 4 yr old would make sense if you didn't want to kill anyone and didn't want a toddler screaming when she saw daddy on the floor.
Easy peasy to describe the vehicle if the guys had already been noticed loitering outside the area.
Again, it's not a big town.
What exactly did the note say? If it was written inside a search for prints should already have been done.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

[...]
Brandon Lockett was able to give police a description of each suspect, because he said he'd seen them hanging around the duplex earlier in the day.

At one point, he asked them to leave, and one of the men said his name was Tony, and that he knew a friend of Lockett's.

Lockett said he believes the abductors were using his family to get to someone he knows because the ransom note, which asked for $10,000, was addressed to that person. Lockett declined to disclose the name on the note.
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http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/233222

[crickett]

Updates? I can't find any....

[Whisper]

UPDATE JAN 18 2010

Tonight, the desperate search for an adorable 2-year- old toddler. Police in Roanoke, Virginia, have issued an Amber Alert for little Aveion Lewis. Cops along with the FBI desperately hunting for any sign of this adorable, precious child.

Aveion, 2 1/2 feet tall. He weighs only 26 pounds. He was last seen wearing his yellow Spongebob Squarepants footy pajamas.

The boy`s stepfather says three men broke into the family`s home and abducted the toddler last Thursday at about 5 p.m. He says the thugs hit him over the head, knocked him unconscious. The step-dad says when he woke up, he found his 4-year-old daughter bound and gagged and his little stepson missing.
The family says Aveion`s abductor also left behind a bizarre ransom note demanding $10,000. More on that in a moment.

Here is the step-dad talking to HLN affiliate WDBJ. BRANDON LOCKETT,

STEPFATHER OF ABDUCTED TODDLER: I heard a knock at the door, I went to the back door and all I remember was boom. That`s all I remember. When I came -- when I came to, my wife was standing over me, and my son was crying, and my daughter, she was gagged, up stairs in her room, and that`s all I remember.

Little Aveion has a health problem, because he was born prematurely. The stepfather says he needs to be kept warm. So if these mystery men have this child, the clock is ticking.

MICHELLE SIGONA, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER:

The very latest, Jane, is about 150 leads have come in so far on this case. The FBI has about 20 agents at various points teaming up with the local authorities in Roanoke to field out leads.

And they`re doing something interesting. They`re passing out questionnaires to all residents within the neighborhood, asking them specific questions about anything that they saw that day, anything specific about the neighborhood. And in addition, they`re asking for consent to be able to go inside of these homes and to possible search for clues and to see if there`s anything else.

I can confirm that investigators do have surveillance video, that they are looking through. I personally called the food line in the area. They do not have any outside external cameras, but the gas station down the street may have some -- may have some surveillance that police are looking into, along with a few other businesses in the area at this time.

When we do know is Aveion is still missing. His 4-year-old daughter [SIC] is OK. There were two other children home at the time. And the stepfather is now, as we you -- as we just saw, speaking out. And he also has said that he has the $10,000 and that they just want their son back. VELEZ-MITCHELL: OK. He says he was knocked unconscious. Does he have any injuries? Did the step-dad go to the hospital?

SIGONA: At this time what many people who have seen him in person say that his lip was split and that he does have bruises on his face. So it does appear that he was attacked.

CHRIS WADE, UNCLE OF ABDUCTED TODDLER:

The other side of the note it had my sister`s name circled, and it was like "It`s nothing personal; it`s just business. We`ll contact you."

I find it hard to believe they came here, tied my niece up, grabbed my nephew and still had time to write a note with two different handwritings on there and get out without nobody seeing them.

This case has some interesting parallels to the famous JonBenet Ramsey case. You may remember there a ransom note demanding $118,000 from her parents, John and Kathy, that was found inside the home. It was allegedly written on lined notepaper taken from a pad inside the house.

JOHN LUCICH, FORMER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATOR:

Most cases that I`ve seen, they go there to the scene of the crime with that note already done. They`re not going to waste any time. If they`re going to come in, grab that kid and try and get out, they`re not going to take time to sit down, look for a piece of paper, find a pen and actually sit there and write that. That is the biggest suspicious part of this whole case right there.

VELEZ-MITCHELL:

Judge David Young, I don`t understand. If somebody demands a ransom, don`t they also have to tell you where you can put that ransom? "Hey, leave it here, or I`m going to call you at such-and-such a time and tell you where to leave it." I mean, there`s none of that, it would appear. I don`t know. I haven`t seen the ransom note.

YOUNG: It`s very suspicious.

There`s something rotten in Denmark.

You know, it`s very interesting, because Robi Ludwig, the stepfather says that the 4-year-old child was tied up. Now, this little boy`s missing. Is the 4-year-old going to be the key to this case? Is she going to be able to say, "Well, yes, I was tied up" or "I wasn`t tied up," and yes, "who exactly tied me up"?

is that you have to think this crime happened in the early afternoon hours. Nine-one-one was called at 6:41 p.m. by someone inside of the residence. Investigators will not say who, but it`s possibly believed to be the child`s mother. And so if anyone saw anything -- this neighborhood does have a lot of houses. They could have possibly seen these three suspects.

LOCKETT:

He has malrotation, meaning he can eat, but -- he can eat, but his body won`t absorb the fats that it needs, so it doesn`t have the enzymes that it needs. So I mean, he has medical problems. I mean, if you`ve got him, make sure you keep him warm

Should they subject the stepfather to a polygraph, and so we can be done with the questions about him and move on?
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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Robi, what do you make -- what do you make of his -- the hat and the looking down?

LUDWIG: There is something about the stepfather`s demeanor that doesn`t ring true. There`s a flatness in his voice. He doesn`t seem to be panicked. It seems like he`s rehearsed some of what he`s saying in his mind.

Roanoke, Virginia, Police Department issued a press release with descriptions of Aveion`s abductors and a possible vehicle. This is as provided by the boy`s family.

They are three black males, one named Tony. Tony, late 20`s, 6`2" with a stocky build, wearing a black puffy jacket and du rag. Second suspect, 20s, 5`11", dreds, red baseball cap, muscular upper body. Third man, 23 or 24, 5`11", wearing a brown and white hat, clean shaven. Cops say the men might be in a 1990s white Chevy Blazer.

This is a lot of detail, John Lucich. So that`s what police are looking for right now, based on the family`s descriptions. What do you make of the detailed nature of these descriptions?

Judge David Young, what I don`t understand is why this child, this -- that family does not appear to be wealthy. I don`t know what the father does, the stepfather. But why would anybody target this family? They`re not likely to have money.

YOUNG: Well, that`s why I think it`s someone who`s related to the situation. We keep hearing stepfather, stepfather. Where`s the biological father? What is his role? What is his family`s role? Maybe they want this child back in their family. That`s where I would start the investigation.

if he was knocked out, how did he get such a great description of the men if, in fact, he`s the one providing that description?
SIGONA: That`s a very good question, Jane. And that`s something that police aren`t commenting on. All that they will say at this point is, look, this is a suspect description that we have. This is the information that we were given.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...8/ijvm.01.html

[Aslan]

Gee, they are looking for bio dad?
what an innovative concept.

I actually think stepdad is innocent here. I also think mom isn't being truthful about daddy

[Silvahalo]

Very suspicious. Who the hell took him and where the hell is baby Aevion?? babies aren't bargaining things or play things folks! wtf?! treating children's lives like they aren't even real, living breathing things. SICKENING.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Not Good...

Police are now treating the case of a missing Roanoke toddler as a death investigation.

2-year-old Aveion Lewis was reported missing to police last Thursday, but police say conflicting stories forced them to focus on his step-father.

Brandon Lockett, who we spoke to last week, is now in custody, and being questioned in the death of his step-son. He has not been charged.

Police say that Lockett told them Aveion was dead prior to his 911 to report the child missing.

However, police have not located the boy's body, and will continue searching until the body is found.

http://www.wset.com/news/stories/0110/697571.html

[Whisper]

Im out of thanks but ty dv.Its not good at all.

[crickett]

Out of Thanks DV but wanted to thank you for the update. I actually thought stepdad was hinky from the get go. He was able to give far to thorough descriptions of the supposed perps. I think he out-smarted himself.
However; I wanted to be wrong. I really did. you couldn't look at that adorable toddlers cute chubby little face and not want to be wrong on this. I wanted him to be alive.

[Whisper]

yeah his description was to accurate to be knocked unconscious like he claimed.Probrably had some friend buff up his face to look like he was beat up or the mom kicked his ass after she found her babys body!

[Pene784]

Did anyone think this would end in any other way?

[Whisper]

Missing Boy Feared Dead; Suspect in Vicious Home Invasion Appears in Court


JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST

Fast breaking, disturbing developments in the desperate search for this adorable boy, Aveion Lewis. Police now say they believe the little boy is dead and that he was never abducted in the first place. Cops are now shifting their attention to the stepfather. Tonight, we will have the very latest in this fast-breaking, fast-changing case.

VELEZ-MITCHELL:

Tonight, heartbreaking developments, and I mean heartbreaking, in the case of this missing 2-year-old Virginia boy. Police now believe little Aveion Lewis is dead.

Police say his step-dad confessed that the boy was already dead and that the kidnapping story, he said, was a lie. Police are now scouring the Roanoke area for this precious little child`s body.

The step-dad, Brandon Lockett, is in custody, but he has not been charged with the death at this point. Police think the little boy was dead even before Lockett called 911 to report an abduction on Thursday.

Now, the step-dad initially said three men burst into his home, knocked him unconscious, bound and gagged a 4-year-old girl and then kidnapped little Aveion. Listen to this.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...9/ijvm.01.html can read whole story at link

[Silvahalo]

Police say his step-dad confessed that the boy was already dead and that the kidnapping story, he said, was a lie. Police are now scouring the Roanoke area for this precious little child`s body.

No surprise, none at all.

Fuckn baby killers. Damn them all to Hell!

[Whisper]

[Whisper]

I have no thanks but yeah torture them

[Aslan]

crap